HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act has been signed into law as part of the Recovery Act, making changes to to privacy and security rules of HIPAA which are effective immediately. New Breach Notification Rule for HIPAA applies to vendors of personal health records and third party service providers.

Definition of Breach:

It's an inside joke here at LeapFILE that we're the best kept secret in town. We provide an awesome solution to businesses who are seeking enterprise class, secure file transfer but we do little to no marketing. One way or another, however, our customers find us. It's a fact that over 90% of our customer base finds us because an existing customer recommended LeapFILE; or because they were on the recipient end of a LeapFILE transfer and were astounded by how easy the transfer process was.

Missouri is the latest state to join the other 44 in the nation with its passing of a data breach notification law. House Bill 62 will be effective as of August 28th, 2009. The regulation requires anyone (person or business) who handles sensitive personal information to provide notification if there is unauthorized access (security breach) to the system where the personal data resides.

A lot of the attendees from AICPA Tech+ were kind enough to take the time and filled out a survey for us during the exhibition. We wanted to utilize the opportunity we had with our community to try to gain a better understanding on what each and every user is looking for so we can continue to develop and improve.

Here are some of the results we got:

This was our first time attending the AICPA Tech+ Conference. I must say overall it was a pretty awesome experience despite how tiring it was being on my feet all day long. We would like to say thanks to all those who stopped by our booth during the show and learned a little bit of what LeapFILE is about. It was a very rewarding experience as we got the chance to interact with everyone, share ideas, and learn about what accountants are looking for in their solutions.

TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, famous for attracting shoppers looking for brand name merchandise at bargain prices, likely regrets adopting the same frugal philosophy for their own corporate network security. 

I just returned from the AICPA Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas, and confirmed that customers like substance and expertise. Cynics might argue that trade show and conference attendees go for the exotic locales or simply to "officially" take some time off away from the office. Or, to take the opportunity to bring the spouse and kids for a family vacation. 

This may sound like the beginning of a lame joke, but... did you ever hear about the story of the woman who bought her elderly mother a new mattress and after throwing out the old mattress, the mom remembers that she had stashed in her mattress $1 million cash? That's exactly the what I heard this morning on the radio as I was driving to work this morning.
 

A Boston law firm just deployed LeapFILE’s secure file transfer solution to its hundreds of lawyers, legal assistants and staff. The implementation was made easier with the use of LDAP (“Lightweight Directory Access Protocol”) to integrate with its Active Directory.

The question raised in Part 1 actually points to an issue that will rear its ugly head as more and more cloud computer services are utilized by businesses to cover data intensive applications from file transfer, storage, disaster recovery, archiving and work collaboration. Can a law firm still claim attorney client privilege if it intentionally and knowingly transmits a communication to a client through a 3rd party provider?